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Healthcare Leadership Excellence Program

Prepare for strategic challenges that leaders in healthcare face

About the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Program

The Healthcare Leadership Excellence Program is designed for senior leaders of public and private institutions and companies in the field of healthcare. Its main objective is to help them prepare for the disruptive future, which healthcare faces globally and in the region of South-East Europe. The program is holistic and covers several dimensions of leadership challenges in a coherent way. The participants will not only gain strategic insight into technological, regulatory, demographic, and other sources of disruption, but also  conceptual and practical advice on how to deal with them, both on organizational and personal levels.

 

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Program structure

6-day program delivered in three modules of two days each.

Module 1

  • Leading high-performance teams;
    Prof. Drikus Kriek, IEDC-Bled School
    of Management,
    February 19, 2025
  • Leading self;
    Prof. Pierre Casse, IEDC-Bled School
    of Management,
    February 20, 2025

Module 2

  • Leadership challenges in the healthcare sector, today and tomorrow,
    Prof. Nora Colton, University College London, UK;
    March 27, 2025
  • Impact of technology on leadership in healthcare;
    Prof. Nick Alexander Guldemond,
    Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands,
    March 28, 2025

Module 3

  • Leading in crisis and leading organizational transformation,
    Dr. Nenad Filipović, IEDC-Bled School of Management,
    April 15-16, 2025

Who should attend?

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Senior executives and other senior leaders who are responsible for strategic decision-making within their healthcare organizations

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Academic leaders in medical and health education: deans, directors, and senior faculty of medical and health sciences institutions.

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Healthcare policymakers, Leaders of healthcare NGO / non-profit organizations

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Senior consultants and advisors in healthcare

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Medical directors, senior physicians, and heads of clinical departments

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Senior managers of public and private health insurance companies

Why should I attend?

 Participants will advance their leadership competencies, required for steering their organizations through the promising but demanding future of the healthcare sector. They will benefit from intense interaction with peers as well as representatives of other important stakeholders, contributing not only to a better-rounded view of strategic challenges and possible responses to them but also to strengthening personal networks in the sector. However, the benefits will not only stem from professional discussions but also from insights about own leadership behaviors and patterns of engagement in comparison to best leadership practices in the healthcare sector and beyond. Personal development and growth, as well as replenished energy and engagement focus, are the ultimate benefits of the program.

  • Developing a state-of-the-art understanding of current and expected challenges in the healthcare sector globally and in South-East Europe
  • Getting developmental feedback and setting personal priorities for future development
  • The follow-up support through an alumni community of practice could help participants continue their development and apply their skills post-program on concrete cases
  • Improving three critical dimensions of leadership competencies: leading oneself, leading the core team and
    leading the organization
  • Growing personal network in the healthcare sector
  • Creating a clear focus on the immediate areas of both personal and organizational engagement, as well as the energy to start effective action

Topics covered

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR, TODAY AND TOMORROW

  • Sources of disruption and future trends in healthcare
  • How new developments in the healthcare sector translate into specific leadership challenges

LEADING SELF

  • Leadership profiles and key leadership activities
  • Where do I stand as a leader

LEADING HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS

  • Characteristics of high-performing teams
  • Leadership impact on team dynamics

IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON LEADERSHIP IN HEALTHCARE

  • How technology acts as added value in healthcare
  • Technology-related leadership priorities

LEADING IN CRISIS

  • Drivers of successful outcomes in crisis situation
  • Leadership role in crisis

LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

  • Redesigning the organizational blueprint
  • Leading transformational change

Lecturers

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Drikus Kriek

IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia

Prof Hendrik Sebastiaan (Drikus) Kriek is a Dean of IEDC – Bled School of Management, Postgraduate Studies and Executive Director of the DBA Programe at IEDC-Bled School of Management. He is former Director of the Leadership Development Centre and Associate-Professor in Human Resource Management at the Wits Business School (WBS) of the University of the Witwatersrand. Previously he had been Associate-Professor in Organisational Behaviour and Leadership at the Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL) of the University of South Africa and is former Head of the Strategy and Leadership Area of the school.

He studied Clinical Psychology and received his MA (Clin Psych) and MBA degrees both cum laude from the Rand Afrikaans University and the University of Stellenbosch respectively. Prof Kriek received his Doctorate from the University of Pretoria and is a graduate from Yale University in the United States. He spent his Sabbatical leave at the Integral Leadership Centre (Wilber-based) of the Graduate School of Management of The University of Western Australia with Prof Ron Cacciople, renowned leadership development expert and practitioner.

His research, publications and teaching focus mainly on teambuilding, leadership and change management and he has published in popular- and accredited academic journals and has presented his research to local and international forums. He was named Researcher of the Year for 2006/7 at the SBL and his books are all related to teams and teaming. His article on African Change leaders (with Prof Stella Nkomo) has been awarded the Best Paper of 2011 of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (one of the top five in the field).

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